On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2015, Patrick Kelsey wrote: > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 18 May 2015, John Baldwin wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> 2. Markup - should I be using .Pq instead of explicit parentheses? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> We do not have a strong preference for Pq over explicit parentheses, >>>>> >>>> so I >>> >>>> would leave them in. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Ah, I thought we preferred mdoc markup (Pq, Dq, etc.) when possible. >>>> >>> >>> I don't think there are written style rules on this point, but there is a >>> large body of existing text using both forms (for Pq in particular), and >>> we're unlikely to get anywhere close to consolidation. >>> >>> >> Based on cursory grep -r | wc on share/man, lines with explicit parens >> outnumber lines with .Pq by about 4:1 with the delta being about 3.5k >> lines. That estimate is not perfect, but I did take some pains to exclude >> counting among lines with explicit parens those with copyright symbols, >> code examples, lines in comments (such as the license terms), etc. >> > > That result gives the current state, which might not be the goal. To put > it another way, there are a lot of man pages which are not the best > examples. > I agree. These numbers were in the context of describing the 'large body of existing text using both forms', and not meant to be a 'majority rules' argument. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
